Hi Everyone,

When I first tried using WINE to run an old multiplayer game server, I got the following error (plus a couple others):

"Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible."

The way I fixed this problem was to configure WINE to run from one of my physical drives (a USB flash drive in my case) rather than the ramdisk (/home/knoppix). The steps I use to configure WINE this way are:

1. Mount the physical drive (sda1 in my case) by clicking on it.
2. Right click on the sda1 icon and change its properties so that it is writable.
3. Create a folder called ".wine" on sda1. Create an empty text file called "config" in the .wine folder. Create a folder called "drive_c" under the .wine folder.
4. Open a terminal window and run "wine". Click the "Configure Wine" button.
5. Set the "location of the wine configuration file" to "Other", and type "/mnt/sda1/.wine/config" into the text box.
6. Click the "Overwrite" button.
7. Check the "use an existing windows partition" button, and enter "/mnt/sda1/.wine/drive_c".
8. Click the "finish" button.

Check and make sure the *.reg" files exist under the .wine folder on sda1. If they do not, see if they exist under /home/knoppix/.wine and copy them to the .wine folder at sda1. Load your windows app under the drive_c folder on sda1 and run your windows app from said folder, using the syntax "wine <windowsapp>".


Hope this is helpful,
Rich